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Today we talk to Pallav Nadhani, founder of FusionCharts, a company building interactive flash charts and data visualization tools. He is also founder of Seeders, an angel investment firm.

Shabda: Would you tell us a bit about yourself. How did you get started? How has the journey so far been?

Pallav: I am a techie turned CEO. I started FusionCharts at the age of 17 in 2002. Before that, for 2 years, I worked as web developer in my dad's web design/development firm. That's where I developed a love for web technologies. Before that I was writing ...

?L-pad, a remote mentoring/incubation program for early stage startups is launching their second batch. You can apply here. It is an interesting model where they take 4% equity in the company for providing mentoring and connections, but no funding.

Mohit, the founder of L-pad answered some questions for us.

Shabda: This is your second batch who have you already funded?

Mohit: L-pad runs a mentoring program. We do not fund startups. We take a 4% equity stake against the 6-month intensive mentoring.

In our batch-1, we have one startup (Spojit.com) that just launched their alpha.